IBM W520 User Manuals

Table of Contents

• About this manual

  7
• Chapter 1. Safety information

  9
  • General safety

    9
  • Electrical safety

    10
  • Safety inspection guide

    11
  • Handling devices that are sensitive to electrostatic discharge

    11
  • Grounding requirements

    12
  • Safety notices (multilingual translations)

    12
  • Laser compliance statement (multilingual translations)

    25
• Chapter 2. Important service information

  31
  • Strategy for replacing FRUs

    31
    • Strategy for replacing a hard disk drive

      32
    • Important notice for replacing a system board

      32
    • How to use error message

      32
  • Strategy for replacing FRUs for CTO, CMV, and GAV

    32
    • Product definition

      32
    • FRU identification for CTO, CMV, and GAV products

      33
• Chapter 3. General checkout

  35
  • What to do first

    35
  • Checkout guide

    36
    • Diagnostics using PC-Doctor for DOS

      36
    • Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox

      38
    • FRU tests

      39
  • Power system checkout

    40
    • Checking the ac adapter

      41
    • Checking operational charging

      41
    • Checking the battery pack

      41
    • Checking the backup battery

      42
• Chapter 4. Related service information

  43
  • Restoring the factory contents by using Recovery Disc Set

    43
  • Passwords

    44
    • Power-on password

      44
    • Hard-disk password

      44
    • Supervisor password

      45
    • How to remove the power-on password

      45
    • How to remove the hard-disk password

      45
  • Power management

    46
    • Screen blank mode

      46
    • Sleep (standby) mode

      46
    • Hibernation mode

      47
  • Symptom-to-FRU index

    47
    • Numeric error codes

      48
    • Error messages

      49
    • Beep symptoms

      50
    • No-beep symptoms

      51
    • LCD-related symptoms

      51
    • Intermittent problems

      51
    • Undetermined problems

      52
• Chapter 5. Installing and configuring RAID

  53
  • Supported RAID configurations

    53
  • Configuring the system UEFI BIOS to enable embedded SATA RAID functionality

    53
  • Creating RAID volumes

    53
  • Deleting RAID volumes

    54
• Chapter 6. Status indicators

  55
• Chapter 7. Fn key combinations

  59
• Chapter 8. FRU replacement notices

  63
  • Screw notices

    63
  • Retaining serial numbers

    64
    • Restoring the serial number of the system unit

      64
    • Retaining the UUID

      64
    • Reading or writing the ECA information

      65
• Chapter 9. Removing and replacing a FRU

  67
  • Before servicing ThinkPad T520, T520i, and W520

    68
  • 1010 Battery pack

    68
  • 1020 Serial Ultrabay Enhanced device or travel bezel

    69
  • 1030 DIMM slot cover

    70
  • 1040 DIMM (bottom slot)

    71
  • 1050 Hard disk drive slot cover, hard disk drive (HDD) and HDD rubber rails or solid state drive (SSD) and storage converter

    73
  • 1060 Keyboard

    75
  • 1070 DIMM (upper slot)

    78
  • 1080 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless LAN

    79
  • 1090 PCI Express Mini Card for wireless WAN or mSATA solid state drive

    81
  • 1100 Keyboard bezel assembly

    84
  • 1110 Bluetooth daughter card (BDC-3.0)

    86
  • 1120 Backup battery

    87
  • 1130 Smart Card or Smart Card dummy spacer

    88
  • 1140 Speaker assembly

    90
  • 1150 Thermal module

    92
  • 1160 CPU

    94
  • 1170 LCD unit

    95
  • 1180 Base cover assembly

    98
  • 1190 I/O sub card

    100
  • 1200 System board assembly, magnesium structure frame, and modem daughter card (MDC)

    101
  • 2010 LCD bezel assembly

    105
  • 2020 LED sub card

    106
  • 2030 Integrated camera

    107
  • 2040 LCD cable, camera cable, LCD panel, and hinges

    107
  • 2050 Antenna kit and LCD rear cover assembly

    110
• Chapter 10. Locations

  113
  • Front view

    113
  • Rear view

    114
  • Bottom view

    115
• Chapter 11. Parts list

  117
  • Overall

    118
  • LCD FRUs

    159
  • Keyboard

    166
  • Miscellaneous parts

    167
  • AC adapters

    168
  • Power cords

    169
  • Recovery discs

    170
    • Windows 7 Home Basic (32 bit) DVDs

      170
    • Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit) DVDs

      171
    • Windows 7 Professional (32 bit) DVDs

      172
    • Windows 7 Professional (64 bit) DVDs

      173
  • Common service tools

    174
• Appendix A. Notices

  175
  • Electronic emissions notices

    176
  • Trademarks

    176